Desperate Newcastle could offer £70m Liverpool transfer Anthony Gordon AGAIN as they battle to avoid PSR breach

NEWCASTLE’S desperation to avoid a PSR penalty saw England star Anthony Gordon offered to Liverpool.

Toon fans were rocked by the revelation that the Tyneside club approached Liverpool earlier in the week to take England star Gordon off their hands.

The Reds initially said no as Newcastle wanted Kop defender Jarell Quansah, 21, as part of a deal to flog the former Everton ace to his old club’s Merseyside rivals.

Now the St James’ Park faithful face an anxious wait until Sunday’s deadline to comply with the Profit and Sustainability Regulations.

And Newcastle hope to solve their problem by completing a deal to sell winger Yankuba Minteh, 19, to Brighton for £33m.

Premier League clubs are capped at £105m of losses over three years – but any sales before Sunday’s limit can go straight into the 2023-24 accounts.

Thus, a number of clubs rushed to balance their books to avoid the possibility of points being deducted.

Newcastle could make another move to take the £23million Gordon to Liverpool before midnight on Sunday.

Former Reds youth player Gordon joined the Toon just 18 months ago in a £45million deal from Everton.

But he is one of Eddie Howe’s few stars who could command a big fee in the short term. This also goes for striker Alexander Isak, who is a big-spending Chelsea target.

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The Swedish star is valued at more than £100m, but Chelsea are prepared to sweeten the deal by offering Nicolas Jackson in return.

Senegalese hitman Jackson, 23, finished last season with 17 goals and six assists in a first campaign at Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea led the way for a while in selling domestic players to stay within the financial restrictions of fair play.

And the Blues are keen to complete a deal for midfielder Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall as newly-promoted Leicester have major PSR issues to deal with.

Again, Chelsea are willing to part-trade, with striker Armando Broja and midfielder Cesare Casadei, who spent the first half of last season with the Foxes.

Newcastle, who would prefer to part with centre-forward Callum Wilson ahead of Isak, have been busy lining up other potential deals.

The Toon have agreed to sell Minteh to Brighton after trying to include him in a swap deal with Nottingham Forest which would have seen Anthony Elanga head in the opposite direction.

Gambian Minteh turned down a £40m switch to Lyon earlier in the week which would have helped ease Newcastle’s headache.

Forest are no strangers to financial compliance complications, having been docked points for breaches over the past year.

This also happened to Everton, who sold striker Lewis Dobbin for around £10m to Aston Villa – hours after Tim Iroegbunam joined the Toffees at Villa Park for a similar fee.

Villa completed the sale of Omari Kellyman, 18, to Chelsea for up to £19m, while Dutch left-back Ian Maatsen, 22, moved in the opposite direction for £37.5m sterling.

Chelsea are another club under pressure to comply with the current rules – and the Premier League has made it clear that it is closely monitoring all such transactions.

And Prem has warned clubs that charging each other inflated fees to circumvent the PSR could land them in hot water.

The league insists that all transfer fees must be at fair market value.

So it’s shaping up to be a busy ‘deadline’ day with almost half of the Prem clubs worried about how their books balance.

That Newcastle are willing to part ways with Gordon, however reluctantly, still came as a shock to many fans.

Preparations for a medical in Leipzig, the nearest big city to England’s training base in Erfurt, were initially explored.